This book offers an interesting and completely comprehensive overview of diabetes. It is not a "how-to" book, nor does it pretend to be. Rather, it gives you the background information you need to better understand your care plan that your physician, dietician, and whomever else prepares with you. The book is an essential resource for anyone living with diabetes or is a diabetic. It provides the reader with the information and steps necessary to control blood sugar, control or prevent diabetes, and also shows how to exercise safely, enjoy a healthier diet, achieve and maintain a healthy weight, protect against serious complications, select and use a glucose monitor.